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I'll hop in on this with probably the most vanilla of choices. I'll be trying to knock out a pair of Ultramarine Rhinos.

Looks like everyone is going with Tanks this month. Well I don't know how i can compare with them but my miniature is this guy. I was gonna paint him now anyway since my paints arrived, so i figured why not enter the challenge.

WIP pic. Medieval dance of death freehands are done on this side. Also I want to thank Paradigm for letting me participate even though I was a bit further into the work than allowed, thankfuly he let it slide on the basis that the model is huge and I have a lot of work in front of me.

I was gonna do some Blightkings but then I thought "feth it, if everyone wants to have a tank off, I'm joining in too!"

Proof:

This is shaping up to be an exciting month with all these tanks getting painted!

I don't really have any tanks to paint, but would a squad of Dark Eldar Incubi fit the bill? They're dressed from head to toe in armour. I need to paint Dark Eldar for my behind-schedule Armies on Parade board!

Am I able to enter? I'm almost finished assembling my Stormlord and was going to be doing it this month anyway. This would be a good motivator to ensure I do get it done...

Oh - and that mess in the middle gap was from when I followed GW's instructions too rigidly and forgot which variant I was building... glued the panels in the wrong gap. Thankfully the sponsons cover it when assembled!

 Bottle wrote:
I was gonna do some Blightkings but then I thought "feth it, if everyone wants to have a tank off, I'm joining in too!"

Proof:

Bottle doing a tank, niceee. This will be interesting.

Been avoiding doing GW stuff for these, but eh, this guy's been calling to me for paint for three years now--hope I get time and don't burn out on it. Actual kit bash/conversion this time.

So, I couldn't think what to enter this month, then I realised I had a model who has a brand new set of armour:

Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. I have another tank.





A Hungarian 44M TAS, aka something that was never produced (the prototype was destroyed) but was kinda like the Panther but also sort of like the Tiger but Hungarian. Weird, the kit is probably not historically accurate and I slapped some Jagdtiger side skirts on it because those were the only ones at the shop that fit lenght-wise, so it is complete fiction. Blame Wyrmalla's Thaw of '46 plog for reminding me this was somewhere on the back of my closet shaming me.

progress

on his pants lol

all those tiny wires are sooo cool and yet sooo annoying lol

 Modock wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
I was gonna do some Blightkings but then I thought "feth it, if everyone wants to have a tank off, I'm joining in too!"

Proof:

Bottle doing a tank, niceee. This will be interesting.

Thanks! Gonna be tough. I tried back in Feb and couldn't get my entry done in time.

I'm going to out-vanilla Kavika with a bog-standard SmurfDread...



well I needed one anyway and I'm a bit torn on the direction my chaos stuff is going to go.

 aldo wrote:
Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. I have another tank.

Spoiler:

A Hungarian 44M TAS, aka something that was never produced (the prototype was destroyed) but was kinda like the Panther but also sort of like the Tiger but Hungarian. Weird, the kit is probably not historically accurate and I slapped some Jagdtiger side skirts on it because those were the only ones at the shop that fit lenght-wise, so it is complete fiction. Blame Wyrmalla's Thaw of '46 plog for reminding me this was somewhere on the back of my closet shaming me.

As cool as that sounds aldo the image isn't loading, at least not for me, and since it sounds so cool I really want to see it.

Tanks 1000's of em!

Anyway I don't think I'll have much time this month so going for a single figure. Was racking my brain and looked through a list of all the models I have then this one jumped out and me and I thought why not.

Arkady Model from Kabuki - I've been creating my own little Blood angels successor chapter in my head during long drives for work so he will be in a similar colour scheme to them.

 ZoBo wrote:
righto...this theme feels like a good excuse to finally get another one of my battlewagons done!

I'd gradually bought 5 of the sodding things second hand, a good year or so ago, so I could run the 5-battlewagon formation in 7th ed....and until now, I have only got one painted, so yeah, I never got to run that formation...and erm...now I just have 5 battlewagons...oh well - good thing I love battlewagons!

Your place sounds perfect Zobo, where do I sign up? I have similar issues with my own stuff. I thought Deffkopters where brilliant as a base for vehicle conversions (which they are) so somehow I now own 36, I don't even remember buying that many.....

What's the rule on bases? Can they have been done ahead of time? I have been working on the base for my Knight as I built and magnetized it. The base is almost done but the Knight itself just got completed and primed last night.

 Jadenim wrote:
So, I couldn't think what to enter this month, then I realised I had a model who has a brand new set of armour:

Let me tell you from experience, that model is pretty tricky. That said, having seen your previous work I know you can do it! I look forward to seeing it done.

 Midget Gems wrote:

Your place sounds perfect Zobo, where do I sign up? I have similar issues with my own stuff. I thought Deffkopters where brilliant as a base for vehicle conversions (which they are) so somehow I now own 36, I don't even remember buying that many.....

ah deffkoptas, there's another thing that I loved, and acquired quite a few of - only about 20 though, kinda jealous of your 36! ...like with the battlewagons, I wanted to run 3 squads of 5 of them in games back in 7th, because that was 15 fast, tough, twin-linked rokkits, and only cost 450 points all-up...and again, like the battlewagons, I never got those painted and used them like that in a game either ...and now in 8th, they've obviously recognised that they're good, so now instead of 450 points for 15, it's now 1245 points ...still, silver lining, now that I can't realistically field that many, means I can use more of them in conversions

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Jadenim wrote:
So, I couldn't think what to enter this month, then I realised I had a model who has a brand new set of armour:

Spoiler:

Let me tell you from experience, that model is pretty tricky. That said, having seen your previous work I know you can do it! I look forward to seeing it done.

Well, with everyone else breaking out the super heavies, I had to do something to up the ante! That's how this works, right?

 CREEEEEEEEED wrote:

 aldo wrote:
Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. Tanks. I have another tank.

Spoiler:

A Hungarian 44M TAS, aka something that was never produced (the prototype was destroyed) but was kinda like the Panther but also sort of like the Tiger but Hungarian. Weird, the kit is probably not historically accurate and I slapped some Jagdtiger side skirts on it because those were the only ones at the shop that fit lenght-wise, so it is complete fiction. Blame Wyrmalla's Thaw of '46 plog for reminding me this was somewhere on the back of my closet shaming me.

As cool as that sounds aldo the image isn't loading, at least not for me, and since it sounds so cool I really want to see it.

That's what I get for trying to use blasphemous Google Photos.
I uploaded it to Dakka, now it should show.

It's this thing

WIP:

Thought about not entering this month as got so much on but here i am. Its only going to be a single figure as theres so much hobby to do with armies on parade and a tale of warlords for AOS at my local GW. So here he is

This guys is an aspirant Knight questor for my AOS skirmish warband. The idea is that all the knight and lord wannabes for my stormcast eternals armys have to undertake a quest of such to prove thier martial prowess before the earn their armour. So in some form they are actually trying to armour up.

Hope this is ok as been sitting on it for a while and am finally getting some paint going. Plus i didnt want to do another tank.

Brother Martellus, Blood angels vanguard veteran sergeant.

 aldo wrote:

It's this thing

Spoiler:

Basically a Panther tank but a bit different. I couldn't know because I've never cared much for Germany's tanks

Cool, but also no! How could you? Don't you feel an involuntary twitch in your nether regions whenever you see a Panzerkampfwagen IV G? No? Is that just me?

Okay, I'm in!

Iron Frog Boarding Party:

I don't even know what it does yet but I'm going to convert up one of the new Nurgle tanks that'll be released soon.
I figured I have enough bits/green stuff to make my own variant!

Here's my proof.

It is done. The Fluff for this model is that it is a knight of unknown age that has been operating autonomously for 100 years and no techpriest has been able to get near it until the young techpriestess on top of it managed to. She can direct it and has been working to gain it's trust so they can begin to maintain it. (My Admech army are heretics, for their write up check out this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzldA_Wd4HDkteVG9wb_xCuo8eSL_1a-VnJwpi6oRlw/edit?usp=sharing )














Thanks

Wow. That's really cool, SQRT(-2)!
Love the idea...I just know I'm going to steal it some time in the future!

Those greenstuff cable/tentacles are really consistent and crisp.
How did you do them?

Thanks and

http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/roll-maker/69-roll-maker-tube-wire-machine.html

I'm in! I will compete with a Vulturax Stratos-Automata. Technically a flying monstrous creature according to the rules, but it's a robot, it has armour!

Proof pic: